"default interpretation" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the most common or expected understanding of a word, phrase, or situation. Example: "The word 'apple' has a default interpretation of a round and juicy fruit, but in some contexts, it may also refer to a company or a computer brand."
This interpretation results from the systematic default interpretation of a resultative de-part with an overt NP.
This constraint guides the general or default interpretation of V-DE constructions whose de-part has an overt NP and is semantically resultative.
The main difference is that they don't seem to be defeasible: OT pragmatics tells us how an actual interpretation arose, rather than what the default interpretation could be.
Notice that the default interpretation of a term is its proper sense, defined as "the signification properly and principally given to it".
Regarding the slow switch experiment, the default interpretation is that Oscar's water concept is wholly replaced with a twin water concept (see, e.g., Ludlow 1996, Brueckner 1997).
It is not a long step to the supposition that the default interpretation of the null element is to treat it as the definite determiner 'the'the
Default interpretations are here defaults for processing of an utterance in a particular context.
There are rules of discourse, so-called rhetorical structure rules, that produce such default interpretations.
The diversity of default interpretations pertains not only to their features listed in [1] [8] but also to their provenance.
This comparison of various selected approaches to default interpretations in semantics and pragmatics allows for some generalizations.
In other words, context is incorporated even sooner into the process of utterance interpretation than in Gricean accounts and allows for non-defeasible, albeit standard, default, interpretations.
